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Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country girl of singular ambition, Lucinda moves to Sydney, driven by dreams of self-reliance and the building of an industrial Utopia. Together this unlikely pair create and are created by the spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Australia. Peter Carey's visionary brilliance, and his capacity to delight and surprise, propel this story to its stunning conclusion.
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- Titul
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Peter Carey
- Vydavateľ
- University of Queensland Press
- Rok vydania
- 1988
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 511
- ISBN10
- 0702221724
- ISBN13
- 9780702221729
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Historické romány, Náboženské témy, Láska, Klasika, 19. storočie, Sfilmované, Austrália, Kolonializmus, Austrálska literatúra, Bookerova cena, Sydney
- Prvé vydanie
- 1988
- Pôvodný názov
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Hodnotenie
- 3,6 z 5
- Anotácia
- Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country girl of singular ambition, Lucinda moves to Sydney, driven by dreams of self-reliance and the building of an industrial Utopia. Together this unlikely pair create and are created by the spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Australia. Peter Carey's visionary brilliance, and his capacity to delight and surprise, propel this story to its stunning conclusion.